Politics has always been an ugly game, but with Trump’s return to the White House and the proliferation of AI, we’re a far cry from the days when wearing a beige suit caused controversy. Today, we’re talking about how Trump is using the fede...
2025-10-29 07:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostFrom Goop to MAHA, health/wellness movements might just look like a grift, but each features a real critique of the healthcare industry or medical science at their core. Today we’re talking about wellness and how it connects to the spread of fas...
2025-10-22 07:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostWhy is the right-wing media machine so massive and able to dominate digital media, while liberals and progressives struggle to keep up? Jon Favreau joins us to discuss the critical players and outlets in the early 2000s that led us to where US pol...
2025-10-15 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostWhen we launched Panic World on September 11, 2024 — which we’ll never forget for a different reason now lol — Patreon was the main way we were able to make any kind of a living while producing the show, letting us see if people were actuall...
2025-10-08 17:02:38 +0000 UTC View PostWitches, curses, magic, and the internet overlap much more than you’d think — and not just because of the Etsy witch that cursed Charlie Kirk. The very online Peter Berkman and Luke Silas of the band Anamanaguchi join us to talk about the hist...
2025-10-08 12:09:53 +0000 UTC View Post(SPOILER ALERT!) Grant hosts Ryan on his podcast to share their thoughts on One Battle After Another and what it says about the current state of the US, dads, Gen X, and compare its political commentary to Eddington and Weapo...
2025-10-03 07:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostLike many things, there used to be a bipartisan consensus that in a disaster, you help as many people get through it as quickly and safely as possible. In the past 20+ years, though, we’ve seen a shift in how the right responds to climate catast...
2025-10-01 07:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Apparently there's some Panic World fans (sickos) over at the Signal Awards, as we're finalists in two "listener's choice" categories!
Of course, we're up in the 2025-09-24 15:12:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Two of 2025’s biggest movie releases so far, Eddington (basically Panic World: The Movie) and Weapons, are not the same genre but they both offer interesting looks into the state of our society today. Grant joins Ryan ...
2025-09-24 07:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostTwo of 2025’s biggest movie releases so far, Eddington (basically Panic World: The Movie) and Weapons, are not the same genre but they both offer interesting looks into the state of our society today. Grant joins Ryan ...
2025-09-24 07:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostIf you’ve spent any amount of time online in November, unfortunately you’ve heard of “No Fap,” a movement started over a decade ago by a subsection of very aggressive men who’ve created a pseudo-religion around the concept that all probl...
2025-09-17 07:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostRyan & Grant talk about the fallout from Charlie Kirk's killing, including what we know about the suspect in custody and what this means for current political climate in the US.
2025-09-12 21:30:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe band The Velvet Sundown broke through the music charts with millions of streams in months after coming from nowhere — and being an entirely AI band. Is it an existential threat to the health of the music industry and the internet when you ca...
2025-09-10 15:01:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe band The Velvet Sundown broke through the music charts with millions of streams in months after coming from nowhere — and being an entirely AI band. Is it an existential threat to the health of the music industry and the internet when you ca...
2025-09-10 12:22:27 +0000 UTC View PostOn Wednesday, August 27th there was a shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school, killing two kids and injuring a dozen more people. The shooter took her own life, and left behind two YouTube videos and a manifesto that were dogwhistles for both Th...
2025-09-08 07:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThey’re full of slime, weird crime, and seemingly a lot of fetish stuff. Today, we’re talking about the sloppiest of slop online these days, mobile game ads. An expert on the form, Chelsey Weber-Smith, joins us to talk about the history of the...
2025-09-03 07:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a rerun from February this year, when 17 states in the US had banned PornHub. The tally now stands at 21, and both Mike Johnson and the Supreme Court don't seem fussed to stop there.
Have a listen, especially if you haven't already, ...
2025-08-29 07:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostWe made it nearly a year without having to cover Epstein, but with Trump and his allies consistently committing own-goals and bringing him up, the day has come. Today we’re talking about the Epstein files and what appears to be Trump’s most co...
2025-08-20 07:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostIf a fandom exists long enough in isolation, does it inevitably become toxic or at least, very strange? This is the main question we’ll be exploring today, through a story that begins in 1989. That’s the year that Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rang...
2025-08-13 07:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostIf a fandom exists long enough in isolation, does it inevitably become toxic or at least, very strange? This is the main question we’ll be exploring today, through a story that begins in 1989. That’s the year that Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rang...
2025-08-13 07:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostRyan and Grant discuss that American Eagle ad and why everyone is arguing about Sydney Sweeney's "good jeans."
2025-08-08 13:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostEating disorder content has been a problem on the internet since as early as 2001, but it accelerated with the advent of social media. Today we’re examining why it’s become more prevalent than perhaps at any other time. EJ Dickson, a writer wh...
2025-08-06 07:15:00 +0000 UTC View PostEating disorder content has been a problem on the internet since as early as 2001, but it accelerated with the advent of social media. Today we’re examining why it’s become more prevalent than perhaps at any other time. EJ Dickson, a writer wh...
2025-08-06 07:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostDr. Marc-André Argentino, an expert on extremist ideologies and groups, talks with producer Grant Irving about the intersection of ideology and technology in accelerating the spread of extremism, especially in the case of 764 and other radical gr...
2025-07-30 08:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostOften, like in the case of the Momo Challenge, when parents freak out about a thing online, it’s probably not really a thing. But, today we are talking about one panic that is real — “764,” the comm-network that is gamifying committing cri...
2025-07-29 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostWhat is the creepiest thing you’ve ever seen on the internet? For many people, it was Slenderman. This particularly lithe fellow started off as kind of a fun, spooky thing, and then of course got out of hand and caused a panic both on- and offli...
2025-07-23 07:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostWhat is the creepiest thing you’ve ever seen on the internet? For many people, it was Slenderman. This particularly lithe fellow started off as kind of a fun, spooky thing, and then of course got out of hand and caused a panic both on- and offli...
2025-07-23 02:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostIn April this year the UK Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of a “woman” excludes trans women. Then — apparently celebrating her years-long TERFdom — JK Rowling tweeted an image of herself on a yacht, smoking a cigar, and capti...
2025-07-16 07:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostToday we're looking at how fandom got so cultish, through the lens of the Snyder Cut.
When did fandom become so zealous? Today we’re looking back at the release of the “Snyder Cut” and the people who still think that Zack Snyder should...
2025-07-09 07:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostWe've got a (good) announcement about the future of the show. We'll be back with your regularly scheduled panic next week. Enjoy the Fourth!
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